Monthly Archives: May 2012

“What comfort ought this to afford under every condition!  For the Lord Jesus goes before us through the desert.  He is touched with the feeling of our infirmities.”  Ridley H. Herschell  (1807-1864)

“For his sake, not for our own, are we chosen; in him, not in ourselves, are we received by God, being accepted in the Beloved; and, therefore, in him are we blessed: he is our blessing.”  Unknown  (1859)

“If we had more faith, and ‘added to our faith fortitude,’ our trials would be less, and our success greater.  Said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory of God?”(Thomas McCrie  1772)

“The merices of God are more dear to us when they come to us at a time of special need.”  (Joseph Caryl; 1602-1673)

“The merices of God are more dear to us when they come to us at a time of especial need.”  (Joseph Caryl; 1602-1673)

“Now the day of temptation, doubts and great fears, is an evil day, and a day of vexation: ‘First I shall will God deliver him from who doth wisely ponder on the death of Christ.  Could we see the heart of … Continue reading →

“The Holy Spirit has to shine in our hearts (not intellects) to give us “the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ”  (2 Cor.4:6).  But even that spiritual knowledge is fragmentary.  The regenerated soul has … Continue reading →

“In thus affirming the necessity of regeneration, and the impossibility of salvation without it, our Lord proceeds on the supposition, that in our natural state we are fallen and depraved, a supposition which is uniformly assumed in scripture, and abundantly … Continue reading →

“One of the earmarks of true conversion is adherence to God as all in all regardless of the greatness of the adversity.”  (Author not known  1946)

“There is a crown of glory proposed unto thee above all conceit of merit; stick fast unto his word, and suffer nothing to divide thee from it.”  (John Ball 1632)